Irene Hagen Steele

Irene Hagen Steele is the wife/widow of Russ Steele. She is the mother of Baker and Cash Steele. Irene is a woman in her fifties who has begun questioning her place in the world since the magazine for which she had worked as editor “promoted” her to a position with less pay and fewer hours. Her boss had explained that he wanted the magazine to go in a new, fresher direction.

Irene’s world is turned upside down when she gets a phone call telling her that her husband has been killed in a helicopter crash in the Virgin Islands. Irene learns that her husband owned a multi-million dollar home in the Virgin Islands and that he had a girlfriend there. While Irene is devastated to learn her husband was cheating on her and lying about his job, she believes that she is complicit in...